Currently Reading: Female Fighters

Guest Post Lists and rankings are good for a sport, and female Muay Thai on the world spectrum dramatically lacks any kind of cohesive vision of even who the best fighters in the world are (a...

My interview with Angie this morning: Angie has been training consistently and with dedication at Petchrungruang Gym in Pattaya for about a year and a half now. When she first appeared at the gym we didn’t...

Gym Owner and Fighter Kate wears many hats. She’s a full-time owner and operator of the only Muay Thai gym in West Philadelphia, with her husband and partner Charlie. She’s also an active fighter, which means...

Loma Lookboonmee is ranked as #1 in my listing of best female Muay Thai fighter in the world, 48 kg and under. She’s incredibly slick, has a very high ring IQ, and is very difficult to fight....

While time consuming, I think this is a worthwhile undertaking. About 6 months ago I posted my personal ranking of the top 48 kg or under pro female Muay Thai fighters in the world. As female...

I’m a big fan of the all-female Pettonpung gym in Mae Rim. I’ve fought a few women who trained there over the years I was in Chiang Mai, but it wasn’t until I went to visit...

Below is a list of western women who have fought the most times in Thailand. I had made this list a year ago in a post in an attempt to put my goal of 100 fights...

above, the full fight Japanese fighter Saya Ito is the 100 lb WPMF champion. She took the title from fellow Japanese fighter Little Tiger, the 32-year-old WPMF champion who many felt was dodging Saya and others...

I’m going to spoil the end of the story before I tell it. Undersized, “unknown” female fighter beats two World Champion level fighters in a 4 woman tournament seemingly out of nowhere. And she looked wonderful!...

I got the chance to do a quick interview with Namdtan Por. Muangpet (her name means “Sugar”) just after she’d won a WPMF title belt (126 lbs) at the Wan Wai Nai Khanomtom fights in Ayutthaya,...